Leicester unrest - cricket derived

[Pupp]

Good to see police and community leaders have this all under control - how does a cricket match provoke such unrest

Police call for calm amid Leicester disorder https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershi...

[Juanco20]

Lots of videos on Twitter. Looks like it's building in to something very serious yet it didn't even get a mention on BBC Breakfast...

[Electro1980]

Match between India and Pakistan. It’s the same as Celtic/Rangers but with international tensions involved.

[A500leroy]

Why are men so tribe like about sport? Its pretty stupid.

[Douglas Quaid]

Humans are tribal and like conflict with other tribes. Sport is just a facilitator rather than the reason.

[Voldemort]

It's not about sport: it's about who has the better sky fairy

[MikeM6]

Voldemort said:

It's not about sport: it's about who has the better sky fairy

Not wholly, it may be that religion is a factor, but then religion itself is also is part a consequence of the need to belong to a community, ot a tribe.

Same with football, or baseball, or whether you prefer Subaru to Mitsubishi, or you bought a PlayStation or an Xbox or whatever, it seems to just come down to being a part of a group and then defending that group. Whether you believe in one or the other god is mostly down to which community you were born into.

So I think that the religion may just be another symptom of the tribalism, not more so that the sport itself.

[LeadFarmer]

Looks like Hindu folk trying to provoke the Muslim folk by marching in the streets whilst many were praying

[A500leroy]

Either way its stupid in this day and age that mostly young men want to have a fight over someone being different, who cares?

[VR99]

Not that different to violence at footie games especially where there are long running ethnic/sectarian/religious fault lines.

This is nothing new regarding India-Pakistan cricket games, one side wins, some euphoric very visible celebrations likely with some racist chanting thrown in for good measure, losing side fans don't like it so resort to violence and destruction and so the tit for tat continues. It rarely gets this bad, either way police need to take a firm line to stamp it out. Not easy due to the numbers involved.

Edited by VR99 on Sunday 18th September 08:23

[LeadFarmer]

There is always an e-scooter involved

[Vanden Saab]

LeadFarmer said:

Looks like Hindu folk trying to provoke the Muslim folk by marching in the streets whilst many were praying

Nope, you will have to explain that better. Are you suggesting people can only protest when there are not prayers being said?

It seems they made the mistake of not having BLM or XR Rebellion Insulate BritainJust stop oil banners during their 'march' The BBC would have been all over it they had.

[bitchstewie]

27 arrests.

Not what you expect from Cricket

[scenario8]

bhstewie said:

27 arrests.

Not what you expect from Cricket

It’s not really about cricket at all though, is it? At a push, a real stretch, the cricket match you refer to was three weeks ago.

[foxbody-87]

Have e-scooters been made legal now then? I see them all the time now. Worse are the high-powered electric scramblers, usually doing 40 on the pavement with two hooded gentlemen on the back.
Each one of these pieces of cheap, dangerous Chinese st that bursts into flame is a small victory in my eyes.

[Vickers_VC10]

scenario8 said:

bhstewie said:

27 arrests.

Not what you expect from Cricket

It’s not really about cricket at all though, is it? At a push, a real stretch, the cricket match you refer to was three weeks ago.

This.

Nothing to do with cricket at all.

[bitchstewie]

scenario8 said:

It’s not really about cricket at all though, is it? At a push, a real stretch, the cricket match you refer to was three weeks ago.

I'd assumed as the article suggests it's inflamed already existing tensions.

Not into Cricket but I remember channel hopping some years ago and doing a double take as there was Cricket on and smoke flares all sorts going on in the stands and it turned out that was India v Pakistan.

Either way 27 arrests seems significant.

[the-norseman]

bhstewie said:

27 arrests.

Not what you expect from Cricket

it's nothing to do with Cricket but have you never been to Edgbaston usually a few arrests there during a summer match.

[Biggus thingus]

Good work by the "community leaders" lol

[Bright Halo]

Is that 27 all out?